On Sun 29 Jun 2008 05:35:12a, Jean B. told us...

> maxine in ri wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 2:57 am, Christine > wrote:
>>> Heya folks,
>>>
>>> I did it again. And I was just getting ready to back everything
>>> up...I even got a new backup hard drive. But not soon enough, it
>>> seems. My hard drive, or something caused my laptop to die.
>>>
>>> So..I lost all recipes. I have been saving tons of them from rfc for
>>> years now..and if you have posted recipes in the past year or so...I
>>> would love to see them again. I can't even begin to remember which
>>> ones I had in my files.
>>>
>>> I am hoping to retrieve some of these files...but in the meantime...
>>>
>>>
>>> Christine
>>
>> After that happened to me a second time, I created a googlegroup and
>> sent all the recipes I had and could find, and now new ones, to the
>> group. It's my own personal group, I'm the only member, and I can
>> access the recipes whenever I want to, plus it's moderately
>> searchable. And it's good until google goes broke.
>>
>> maxine in ri
>
> What an interesting approach. I gather it's easy to set up such a
> group? I guess it is too much to hope one could somehow send a
> huge file all at once....

I'm not sure Jean. I know they're not directly related, but I tried to
send Christine a 10MB file of recipes using my Gmail account and it was
rejected for exceeding their attachment size limit. Google Groups may be
different, since many people use their groups to store pictures that can be
quite large.

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Wayne Boatwright
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